From Princeton Pause featuring our own University Archivist Dan Linke.
May 2012: The Senior Thesis
Members of the Class of 2012 have finished one of their final rites of passage before walking through FitzRandolph Gate in June — turning in their senior theses. These theses will join some 60,000 others as part of the Princeton University Archives. In this short video, University Archivist Dan Linke gives us a tour of this extraordinary collection.
Anne Margaret Daniel *99 w’ 86, who teaches literature at the New School University in New York and is writing about F. Scott Fitzgerald on stage and film, has published an article in the Times Literary Supplement highlighting Scott and Zelda’s time in Hollywood as seen through the sketches by Zelda on a 1927 telegram in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers: “Two Hearts: The Fitzgeralds in Hollywood, as Drawn by Zelda” (TLS, May 16, 2012). An online version (including one of the sketches) can be accessed from the TLS website: “The Fitzgeralds in Hollywood.”
Professor Daniel, who gave the keynote lecture at the Fitzgerald Centenary Conference in Princeton in 1996, recently published an article in the PAW on Gatz, the stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby: “Gatsby in full, on stage at McCarter: Cast of ‘Gatz’ views manuscripts before memorable performances” (Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 18, 2012).
In 1995 the Princeton University Library acquired the papers of the acclaimed Mexican author Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012), whose passing on May 15 has been marked internationally by all who admired his major contributions to modern literature and his role as a cultural and political commentator on Latin America, past and present. More information on the RBSC Manuscripts blog.
The Princeton University Archives, working in conjunction with the Princeton University Library Digital Initiatives, has nearly completed a monumental project that will change the way researchers investigate University history.
Following President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s declaration of a four-day nationwide bank holiday during the Great Depression, The Daily Princetonian issued its own currency in denominations of 25 cents. The currency first appeared on March 7, 1933, in the form of scrip, as seen in a March 18, 1933, picture in the ‘Prince.’
The Daily Princetonian, By Buyan Pan, Published: Friday, May 11th, 2012
